However, the system is designed, ingeniously and hopefully, so that no one man could initiate a thermonuclear war.

Presupposed in Plato's system is a doctrine of levels of insight, in which a certain kind of detached understanding is alone capable of penetrating to the most sublime wisdom.

Thus the cocktail party would appear to be the ideal system, but there is one weakness.

For the occasion on which everyone already knows everyone else and the host wishes them to meet one or a few honored newcomers, then the `` open house '' system is advantageous because the honored guests are fixed connective points and the drifting guests make and break connections at the door.

The connective system, or network, is tailored to meet the requirements of the objective, and it is therefore not surprising that a military body acting as a single coordinated unit has a different communication network than a factory, a college, or a rural village.

The problem is rather to find out what is actually happening, and this is especially difficult for the reason that `` we are busily being defended from a knowledge of the present, sometimes by the very agencies -- our educational system, our mass media, our statesmen -- on which we have had to rely most heavily for understanding of ourselves ''.

It is an organized system of these things.

This is necessary for a sounder collective defense system.

It is possible that international organization will ultimately supplant the multi-state system, but its proper function for the immediate future is to reform and supplement that system in order to render pluralism more compatible with an interdependent world.

Air Force life is great, the cadet wrote, `` though the fourth-class system is no fun ''.

An adequate system of VA hospitals is better equipped to care for the veterans than any 50 state hospitals.

The highway system is an agency of government, and when it grinds up 40,000 Americans every year the government is destroying its own taxpayers, which is obviously a silly thing for any government to do.

but the government is left with no reserve granary, under the agricultural system it has ordained.

It is the consequence of the system of ideas that constitutes the frame of our international -- and in some degree our domestic -- policy.

The system is composed of three credit services, Federal Land Banks and National Farm Loan Associations, Federal Intermediate ( short-term ) Credit Banks, and Banks for Cooperatives.

Although a somewhat technical subject, it has important political implications as the above discussion of the voting system indicated.

It was modified somewhat after it was restored under Eucleides ; the most detailed accounts are of this fourth-century modification rather than the Periclean system.

A recent, somewhat experimental solar heating system " Annualized geo solar heating " is practical even in regions that get little or no sunlight in winter.

A somewhat anachronistic yet still widely used system of ferry boats links the two shores.

Henry II's creation of a powerful and unified court system, which curbed somewhat the power of canonical ( church ) courts, brought him ( and England ) into conflict with the church, most famously with Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Nevertheless, all of these systems can also be described without requiring the concept of centrifugal force, in terms of motions and forces in a stationary frame, at the cost of taking somewhat more care in the consideration of forces and motions within the system.

Placing a somewhat closed right hand on the plane with the thumb pointing up, the fingers point from the x-axis to the y-axis, in a positively oriented coordinate system.

Written Danish and Norwegian Bokmål are particularly close, though the phonology ( that is, the system of relationships among the speech sounds that constitute the fundamental components of the language ) and the prosody ( the patterns of stress and intonation ) differ somewhat.

The system outlined above provides a somewhat simplified scenario.

However, this approach has been only somewhat more effective than the harmonization approach: while states are not as concerned about having foreign traditions of corporate governance imposed on their companies, which the harmonization approach could well entail ; they also wish to ensure that the EU-wide system would be palatable to the traditions of their national companies, so that they will not be put at a disadvantage compared to the other member states.

Another similar system used to write the Greek language was the Cypriot syllabary ( also a descendant of Linear A via the intermediate Cypro-Minoan syllabary ), which is closely related to Linear B but uses somewhat different syllabic conventions to represent phoneme sequences.

In 1980, Tim Berners-Lee created ENQUIRE, an early hypertext database system somewhat like a wiki but without hypertext punctuation, which was not invented until 1987.

In 2004, Italian professor Bruno Fabbiani claimed that examination of the 42-line Bible revealed an overlapping of letters, suggesting that Gutenberg did not in fact use movable type ( individual cast characters ) but rather used whole plates made from a system somewhat like a modern typewriter, whereby the letters were stamped successively into the plate and then printed.

This job can also be performed somewhat crudely by a human operator who can see the target and the missile, and guides it using either cable or radio based remote-control, or by an automatic system that can simultaneously track the target and the missile.

Biological evolution proceeds by random variation in ensemble averages of organisms combined with culling of the less-successful variants and reproduction of the more-successful variants, and macroscale engineering design also proceeds by a process of design evolution from simplicity to complexity as set forth somewhat satirically by John Gall: " A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.

A project to convert the gauge of the system to 1435 mm has also somewhat stalled.

The new government of Puerto Rico, organized under the Foraker Act of 1900, was a mixture of the British and the American system, somewhat similar to that established for the territory of Orleans after the Louisiana Purchase.

Therefore, the absence of life in Venus, with a somewhat similar composition to Earth's primitive conditions or the absence of life on Mars, given the proposed " resilience " of life in space, damages the panspermia theory, at least based on observations of our own Solar System-the theory suggests that life would be more abundant in the Solar system.

The UK category system does, however, class such degrees as Information technology and Game design as ' computer science ', somewhat inflating the actual figure.

Eastern Europe was influenced little by the jurisprudence of the Corpus Juris Civilis, though somewhat by the " Farmer's Law " of the medieval Byzantine legal system.

The Cronquist system of 1981 used a somewhat different circumscription, including the following families:

Slovakia is a developed Central European country with a well developed rail network ( 3, 662 km ) and a somewhat underdeveloped highway system ( 225. 25 km ).

The behavior of the horizon in this situation is a dissipative system that is closely analogous to that of a conductive stretchy membrane with friction and electrical resistance — the membrane paradigm.

This distinction is exemplified by a telephone system with a connected modem, where the RJ11 connection and associated modulated signaling scheme is not considered a bus, and is analogous to an Ethernet connection.

* For analogous entities in research on human judgment and decision-making, see Team and Judge – advisor system.

These methods are analogous to methods used in other areas of science, such as the field of system identification in systems analysis and control theory.

In the central nervous system, the analogous structures are known as tracts.

A distinction may be made here between etic and emic viewpoints – the purely descriptive ( etic ) approach which simply considers any system that is actually used, and the emic view which takes account of language users ' perceptions of correctness, which are analogous in some ways to a moral sense of right and wrong.

In an axiomatic theory or other formal system, the role of a primitive notion is analogous to that of axiom.

A 2009 study showed that pterosaurs had a lung-air sac system and a precisely controlled skeletal breathing pump, which supports a flow-through pulmonary ventilation model in pterosaurs, analogous to that of birds.

The fixed point ( analogous to the origin of a Cartesian system ) is called the pole, and the ray from the pole in the fixed direction is the polar axis.

Although the command economy approach of the communist states meant that most types of property could not be owned, the Soviet Union always had a civil code, courts that interpreted this civil code, and a civil law approach to legal reasoning ( thus, both legal process and legal reasoning were largely analogous to the French or German civil code system ).

In quantum mechanical systems, the analogous resonance is a coupling of two quantum mechanical stationary states of one system, such as an atom, via an oscillatory source of energy such as a photon.

One of the most important equations in Statistical mechanics ( analogous to in mechanics, or the Schroedinger equation in quantum mechanics ) is the definition of the partition function, which is essentially a weighted sum of all possible states available to a system.

At this distance, the dust belt may be analogous to the Kuiper belt that lies outside the orbit of Neptune in the solar system.

Inconsistencies in this wind and larger events on the surface of the star, such as coronal mass ejections, form a system that has features analogous to conventional weather systems ( such as pressure and wind ) and is generally known as space weather.

With the aid of standard mathematics, the classical spring system can be described in terms of vibrational modes, which are analogous to the harmonics that occur on a stretched violin string.

It is one of the centers of activity of the reticuloendothelial system and can be considered analogous to a large lymph node, as its absence leads to a predisposition toward certain infections.

The initial context is analogous to the root or top of a directory tree for a file system.

In a few cases, however, muscular pumps analogous to a heart are found in various parts of the system.

Spherical coordinates, projected on the celestial sphere, are analogous to the geographic coordinate system used on the surface of the Earth.

The fundamental plane divides the celestial sphere into two equal hemispheres and defines the baseline for the vertical coordinates, analogous to the equator in the geographic coordinate system.

DNIX's native system call was the dnix ( 2 ) library function, analogous to the standard Unix unix ( 2 ) or syscall ( 2 ) function.

Matter compilers receive their raw materials from the Feed, a system analogous to the electrical grid of modern society.

The most common dating system is Contasta Ar, or years since the founding of Ar ( similar to ab urbe condita ), and the Viktel Aria road leading to Ar is analogous to the Appian way.